[MTG] Gideon, Champion of Justice

[Flame Dragon]

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I really can't imagine it being hard to cast Obzedat. The decks will be playing around 16 of each colour in lands for crying out loud.

Oh and, just going to point out your lingering souls argument:

"Lingering Souls is bad because Thundermaw and Staticaster beat it."

Whereas you ignore:

"Gideon is bad because 24-ish cards that see regular standard play beat him, not to mention regular creature combat gets him more than it gets Lingering Souls."
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Even with a ton of lands for your colors its a lot easier to not draw BBWW then it is to draw WW.

And numbers don't matter. It comes down to how much play those cards see. Hellkite sees a massive amount of play and you don't want to play something that is just blanked by him. As for Gideon, from your list 7 don't see any major amount of play. Another 11 I wouldn't say beat him (we have different definitions for what it means for a card to "beat" another card).

Of the remaining cards Selesnya Charm only seems a moderate amount of play, Azorius Charm isn't a permanent answer plus you can play around it, not playing things because they can be countered is foolish, and Tamiyo only stops you from attacking plus doesn't see as much play as Hellkite. Knight is the only card on the list that I would say counters him and sees a similar amount of play to Hellkite (they are in the same deck). Even then if some of the pros I follow are any indication he might also fall out of favor because Staticaster beats it and that is seeing more and more play. And yes, I know people that play Thrill-Kill Assassin over Knight because she doesn't die to Staticaster.